Some simmering rumors have risen to the surface after Toronto Mayor Rob Ford appears to have been caught on camera smoking crack cocaine with drug dealers. But this is just the latest resume item for the man who might North America's most ridiculous mayor.
How bad is it in Washington for the Obama Administration? It's Obama "needs to fire somebody" bad, according to former Clinton adviser Vernon Jordan — and, you know, Politico.
You could call it "an embarrassment," or "amusing," a "soap opera," a "four-star farce," or "the most dramatic rose ceremony yet." You could call it, as Paula Broadwell did (for her book), All In: The Education of General David Petraeus. You could call it a conspiracy, or just like high school. But you're going to have to call it something.
"At the C.I.A., [adultery] can be a security issue, since it can make an intelligence officer vulnerable to blackmail, but it is not a crime," write Scott Shane and Charlie Savage in the New York Times. Adultery can also sell books, particularly when the book is a gushingly reverential ode to the subject with whom the writer is said to be having an affair.
Tucker Carlson's website The Daily Caller is taking a shot at the October Surprise game, accusing New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez of soliciting prostitutes while on a trip to the Dominican Republic.
Paolo Gabriele, the 46-year-old former butler to the Pope, is going to serve his 18 month punishment for stealing confidential documents in the safety of his Vatican City apartment.
The Oxford American is embroiled in a scandal. The short story: sexual harassment. The long story, as always, is far more complicated.
"Confidantes" of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi have begun floating the idea that the "disgraced" leader is rested and ready to reclaim his old job.
We've heard of single stories getting the Hollywood treatment, but this is unusual: An entire issue of New York Magazine devoted to scandals in the city, has been optioned for a possible television series by Sony Pictures Television, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Last night's episode of Nightline, all about the disappearance of Air France flight 447, featured a perfect nugget of news with which to drum up some renewed interest in the story: The suggestion of a sex scandal involving the plane's captain.
The steady drip of diplomatic scandals between the U.S. and Chinese governments keeps coming, this time with a report, delayed for months, that China arrested one of its own security officials for allegedly spying for the United States.
What does a person do when they're angry about something that happened, something they may not be accepting full accountability for, something they may deny altogether? Sometimes, they play the victim card.
On Monday, John Edwards' defense team began their case in his trial over the alleged violation of campaign finance laws. What's happened so far, and what can we expect?
Dispatches from John Edwards' trial over campaign finance law violations continue to come out. Today's episode takes an interesting romantic turn.
This week's hot scoops in the Bo Xilai scandal come from The Telegraph, on the China side, reporting that Bo's wife Gu Kailai confessed to murdering Neil Heywood, and from The Harvard Crimson, on the Western side, which got a statement from Bo's son, Bo Guagua.
As the trial of disgraced former Senator John Edwards begins today, The Washington Post has the must-read piece on what his life has become: a sad, single father, alone with his regrets.
The White House had to reverse course today on a Christmas tree-related tax, but its not the first Tannenbaum-related scandal this administration has faced.
The old Hollywood scandal gets new legs with a Newsweek interview
Secret grand jury testimony could offer answers to lingering scandal questions
The Twitter hacking scandal flared up again, and it was largely his fault
Six more months and he sets the presidential record, computes Brendan Nyhan
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